The part that's notable is "petite" female. Sending a small person as the sole guard for a 250 pound guy sounds pretty nuts to me.
The more this story is talked about I notice that the guard keeps getting smaller and shorter and the criminal keeps getting taller and bigger.
Your point is well taken, but what I was responding to was the statement that this never would have happened if the deputy had been male. That is complete BS because this kind of thing HAS happened many times before, and to men. If the deputy in this incident had been male, would people have questioned his fitness for duty? Highly doubtful. Instead, they would have questioned the procedures in place, which fortunately is now happening despite the distraction of the deputy's gender.
Nah. . . .we see Buffy and Angel and all these other 120 lb bim-bets kicking 250 man-butt all the time. It can happen. It's on TV.